Hard Drive firmware updates through Yum repo?

[Jeffrey_L_Mendoza at Dell.com]

Some of the latest SAS drives, recent ones that shipped with capable
firmware, are updateable online with DUPs. If you have these drives,
they should be updateable through yum using firmware-tools as well. With
a quick look at
http://linux.dell.com/repo/firmware/cross-distro/RPMS/noarch/ I see rpm
versions of the SAS HDD DUPs we publish.

-Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com
[mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of
Kurt_Olsson at dell.com
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 10:12 AM
To: jpotter-dell at codepuppy.com; linux-poweredge-Lists
Subject: RE: Hard Drive firmware updates through Yum repo?

Absolutely, positively, completely impossible.

The HDD firmware update process must occur while "offline."  The update
process effectively removes each disk from any RAID array for the period
of the update (about 45 sec.) during which time it downloads the FW to
the drive, updates the FW and tests to ensure that the drive is still
functional. To do this "online" would virtually guarantee that there was
data corruption or  data loss.  

-----Original Message-----
From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com
[mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of J Potter
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 9:08 AM
To: linux-poweredge-Lists
Subject: Hard Drive firmware updates through Yum repo?


Hi List,

Is it possible to update the actual hard drive firmware through an RPM
from Yum? We're being told that we need to update the firmware on a
bunch of drives with the following update:

http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&
releaseid=R174948&SystemID=PWV_MD1000&servicetag=&os=WNET&osl=en&devicei
d=10167&devlib=0&typecnt=0&vercnt=2&catid=-1&impid=-1&formatcnt=2&libid=
44&fileid=238853

We've already got the System bios, PERC firmware, etc. being updated
through yum, through the dell-firmware repo.

-Jeff